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Caldor, Inc. was a discount department store chain founded in 1951 by husband and wife Carl and Dorothy Bennett. Referred to by many as "the Bloomingdale's of discounting," [ 1 ] Caldor grew from a second story "Walk-Up-&-Save" operation in Port Chester , New York, into a regional retailing giant. [ 2 ]
A vacant West Deptford, NJ Bradlees store in 2007, this was a former Jefferson Ward location that Montgomery Ward sold to Bradlees when they decided to discontinue the chain. This location space is now occupied by multiple stores. In early January 2001, the chain started their liquidation sales, and the final store closed on March 15, 2001.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
The Abby Z flagship store opened in SoHo, New York at 57 Greene Street in 2008 and closed in 2009 [46] when its parent company filed for bankruptcy. [47] Anchor Blue – youth-oriented mall chain, founded in 1972 as Miller's Outpost. The brand had 150 stores at its peak, predominantly on the West Coast.
With only 27 Costco Business Centers in the U.S., you may not have been to one. Here’s what you need to know about them, including some answers to frequently asked questions.
Incidentally, Home Depot opened a store on the same plot of land Two Guys occupied in the mid-1990s (after Two Guys went out of business, the Totowa store was subdivided and redeveloped into a shopping center anchored by Bradlees; Bradlees later moved to a newly built store, and the part of the old Two Guys building it had occupied was ...
Zayre was one of only a few stores to remain open 24 hours a day during the weeks preceding Christmas each year. By the end of the 1960s, Zayre Corp. diversified into specialty retailing. Among Zayre's early acquisitions was the Hit or Miss chain, an off-price chain specializing in upscale women's clothing.
By the mid-1980s he was serving as chairman of May Department Store's Venture operation. [1] He was chairman and CEO of Caldor Corporation from 1986 to 1998, both before and after it split from May Department Stores in 1989. [2] Clarke then returned to work for May as president of Lord & Taylor.